Jim Green

  • Nuclear power and water scarcity

    The connections between water scarcity, power generation and the federal government’s promotion of nuclear power are worth reflecting on with National Water Week held from October 21-27.

  • James Lovelock and the big bang

    British scientist James Lovelock, famous for his Gaia theory of the earth as a self-regulating organism, was in Adelaide on July 7-8, speaking at the Festival of Ideas. He has researched across a range of disciplines and has much of interest to say. But on the topic of nuclear power, Lovelock is inaccurate and irresponsible.

  • Australian uranium: feedstock for proliferation

    The good news is that we don't know for sure that exported Australian uranium has been used in nuclear weapons programs since the late 1940s. The bad news is that we don't know it hasn't. The regime designed to attempt to prevent

  • Camp builds N-dump campaign

    ADELAIDE — A bush camp was held near Coober Pedy from September 29 to October 1 to build the campaign against the federal government's plan for a national nuclear waste dump in South Australia. The Kulini Kulini ("Are you

  • Anti-dump activists win 'green Nobel Prize'

    ADELAIDE — Mrs Eileen Brown and Mrs Eileen Wingfield were announced as winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize for the Environment on April 15 for their role in fighting the federal government's plan for a national radioactive waste

  • Liberal MP: Radiation poses 'no known harm' to humans

    ADELAIDE — About 100 people attended a public debate on April 6 concerning the federal government's plan to build a national radioactive waste dump near Woomera, in northern South Australia. Organised by the Campaign Against

  • SA parliament bans nuclear waste dump

    ADELAIDE — The South Australian parliament has legislated to ban the construction of a national radioactive waste dump in the state. The legislation, passed by the upper house in a special sitting to debate the bill on March

  • Campaign launched to stop nuclear dump in SA

    ADELAIDE — Campaign Against Nuclear Dumping was launched on January 31 in opposition to the federal government's plan for a national radioactive waste dump near Woomera in the centre-north of South Australia. The campaign will

  • SPAIN: oil spill highlights corporate scandals

    The fracture, and subsequent sinking, of the oil tanker Prestige off the Spanish coast has created a major environmental disaster, brought the region's fishing industry to a standstill and put the spotlight on the controversial

  • GERMANY: Nuclear waste train sparks protests

    The largest shipment of high-level nuclear waste between France and Germany — 1300 tonnes of it — was trained and trucked from La Hague in France to Wendland in northern Germany. on November 11-14. The waste was taken to a

  • IRAQ: Report predicts huge death toll

    A US-led attack on Iraq is likely to result in between 48,000 and 260,000 deaths during the first three months of combat. Post-war health effects could result in a further 200,000 deaths, according to a report by the International

  • Nuclear dump plans leaked

    The federal government's plan to build a national nuclear dump in South Australia has hit another hurdle with the leaking of a document outlining plans for a $300,000 propaganda campaign in the coming months. The Department of